In my never-ending quest for a "perfect" keyboard-oriented window manager for my laptop, I finally decided to give dwm a shot. It does a lot of what I've tried to do with my jwm mods and it's a lot smaller. Not sure I'm totally sold on it, but I'm good with it so far; I still have a few things to figure out about it. Recompiling to reconfigure isn't exactly a step up from restarting jwm just to make changes available.

Thanks, mikshaw, for explaining why you like it better than wmii back in December. I had an impression it was probably like wmii-junior with more (rather than less) of its quirks.